Sebastian Schlegel • Byteceps Exercises

Circus Broadside

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About a small game with sailing ships that I’ve been tinkering with for far too long, and which has finally gotten a name.

A (Not Quite So) Elite Board Computer

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Elite Dangerous: I want to be able to talk to my onboard computer. Mary, Sphinx, and libGDX are here to help.

Speech Recognition with Sphinx

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A small experiment with MaryTTS and CMU Sphinx4. The goal here wasn’t to transcribe sentences, but rather to recognize some defined commands.

Mary Speaks

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

While looking for a Text-To-Speech solution for Java, I came across MaryTTS. It’s been around for a few years, but is relatively lightweight and very easy to use.

Warp by Numbers

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In the second part of ‘Tracing Katia Sae’s Steps’, we calculate the duration of the great journey.

New Eden in 7825 jumps

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A list of routes through all warp gate-connected systems in the EVE Online game world ‘New Eden’.

Tracing Katia Sae's Steps

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

For the first time, a pilot has visited all star systems in EVE Online. A Python script should find the shortest route through all systems. The approach is a partly randomized pathfinding executed thousands of times in good old brute-force fashion.